I have older sexlink hens that are 4-5 years old and are crossed between leghorn and a Rhode Island Red. Up until this year I have always collected brown eggs. This spring a couple have started laying white eggs? Must be converting back to the leghorn side? Has anyone else experienced this?
Hello, I have mostly R.Reds a couple Barred Rocks and a few cross lynks. 26 in all and a big white rooster crossed between a Leghorn and a Rohde Island Red
Don't see much posted from people here in NY. I'm from about 40 miles west of Albany I'm the great Schoharie Valley.I have showing here a picture of my chicken coop. It is framed on an old pop-up camper.Easy to move with truck or garden Tractor.
I find that pine shavings work much better than hay or straw. I have hens that like to sleep in the nest, but with the shavings it is easily cleaned out
I found that my rooster helped with the new pullets and the older hens getting along. He is definitely the ladies man. He is the one in charge. If the hens start to fight. he steps right in-between them and that's is the end of that. He is a very good rooster and watches out for all of them. He...